Evan Craves with Deposition Sciences, Inc. a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, spent a few minutes with us at Photonics West 2016 to talk about the unique coating capabilities of DSI’s low-pressure chemical vapor process (LPCVD), and how it can uniformly coat ball lenses, micro optics, domes, and other complex geometries.

Doug Malchow with Sensors Unlimited — UTC Aerospace Systems discusses the relaunch of his company's InGaAs linear arrays, provides an update on the export classifications of a 320x256 SWIR camera, and shares a quick refresher on their standard suite of SWIR cameras.

Martin Ettenberg with Princeton Infrared Technologies introduced us to the 1280SciCam InGaAs SWIR Science Camera at 2016’s Photonics West, and explained its potential role in scientific and machine vision applications.

Our world is becoming more and more nano, and silicon photonics technology is helping us all facilitate this change, offering new parallelism, more data throughput capability, the ability to make distributed data centers, and more.

Dan Ford walked us through some of what was on display for laser beam profiling and analysis applications before sharing information on Ophir’s high-power laser application initiative over the last year.